[Elsie]

Why... it'd be time for me to buy a lottery ticket!!!

(After all, the odds of winning are SO much better if you buy one; aren't they?)

A good question: which is more likely - me finding a winner someone accidently mis-read and discarded it; or buying my own and winning???

[bvw]

If we have 2**50 (old Fortran lingo) tables of coin tossers each tossing fifty coins ... and the lottery was that at least one would come up all heads --- sure, then buy that lottery ticket if it pays more than the cost.

But one table, one tosser, fifty coins in the air and landing. Then all heads?

What kind of coin are they? This is a test of a scientist! What would science say, beyond any reasonable doubt?